books.google.co.uk - This biography of Jacob Fugger, the great German merchant and banker of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century, is also an economic history of the golden age in German commercial history. Jacob Fugger was the embodiment of early capitalism. The Fugger family capitalized on family partnerships...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Jacob_Fugger_the_Rich.html?id=rtkuz66c9XsC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareJacob Fugger the Rich